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All spectroscopic data, metabolic rates, trees and our ancestral state reconstruction are published as part of our original study. Additional code with annotations, method details and guidelines, Bayesian ancestral state probability distribution plots (shown in Fig. 1b and extracted for additional major clades), data files and the correlation analysis are freely available in the Github repository14.
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J.W. analysed and replotted the data and prepared Fig. 1. I.M. performed additional ASRs under different models, using diverse functions including the Bayesian ancestral state reconstruction yielding the probability distribution plots based on our published dataset. J.W. wrote the first draft of the response with major contributions from I.M., P.M.H. and D.E.G.B. All authors discussed the topic and edited the manuscript.
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Wiemann, J., Menéndez, I., Crawford, J.M. et al. Reply to: Amniote metabolism and the evolution of endothermy. Nature 621, E4–E6 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06412-x
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